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10 Dec 2016 3:16:09am

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It is disengenuous for these christian groups to make the sweeping claims about Australians attitude to Gay marriage. The last survey I saw said a majority of Australians supported it.It is also disengenuous for Pell to claim "Christians are the largest single community-group in Australia". There are so many different types of christianity, many with contrary beliefs. About the only thing they have in common is that they believe in Jesus (or at least say do because many "christian churches" certainly don't demonstarte much christianity) beyond some worship at christmas, some don't, easter? depends on your church what weekend its on. Some believe Jesus lived in america for a while and some (the incredibly ignorant) believe genesis is the literal truth. All of them label themselves as christain but they are not a community.It would be like calling people who watch cricket, even occasionally, a community. Actually come to think of it they are more of a community than christiand because at least in cricket the rules are cosistent.It is also hypocritical of churches to raise the issues of persecution when at the same time they want to be allowed to discriminate -the very first steps down the persecution path.